Taffy Brodesser-Akner, FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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I interviewed the amazing Taffy Brodesser Akner about her bestselling first novel, Fleishman Is in Trouble, as part of the Streicker Center from Temple Emanu-El's "Women on the Move" series. Taffy was formerly a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and has written for GQ, ESPN the Magazine, and many other publications. We laughed about how many people in her circle think that they know who her protagonist is based on - or even thought “Fleishman” was supposed to be them! I loved Taffy's insights about the role of Judaism in her book, what makes a good interview, and where she wrote this novel. (Hint: it involves a couch in the bathroom at Nordstroms.) I truly loved connecting with Taffy.

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0:56.0	I interviewed Taffy Ackner as part as the Stryker Center from Temple Emanuel's Women on the Move series, which we did as a webinar with hundreds of people listening. It was really fun. I had been looking forward to interviewing Taffy about her book, Fleishman is in trouble for a very long time, and I finally got to do it. Taffy, producer, Ackner, was formerly a staff writer for the New York Times magazine and has written for GQ, ESPN the magazine, and many other publications. Fleshman is in trouble was her first novel. Hi, Taffy. It's so nice to see you. Nipi, it's so great to see you.
1:28.8	How are you?
1:30.0	I'm good.
1:30.9	I feel like I've been waiting to interview you forever, and this is like fantastic.
1:37.2	Yeah, so ironic.
1:38.4	No better time than in a pandemic.
1:40.3	Why not?
1:41.7	We are not on the move anymore.
1:43.9	That's true.
1:44.7	We are sedentary women.
1:47.9	Completely sedentary, yes.
1:51.2	Listless, in fact.
1:54.4	Okay, so recovering women.
1:56.5	Here we are.
1:58.2	Well, congratulations on all the success that Fleischman is in trouble has had. And your
2:03.5	upcoming paperback coming out July 7th is so exciting. Thank you. Maybe by July 7th, there'll be a way
2:10.8	to non-virtually promote, but who knows? Who knows? I'm sure that most people attending this webinar already are familiar with your book.
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